[lkozloff]

I've found the act of prioritization to be one of the hardest practices to build. I know I should prioritize. I know it takes time to do it well... but if I spend just 10m doing this one thing I can get a nice dopamine hit for having accomplished... something.

One of the things that has helped me most recently is building out a better set of rules for my inbox that let me segment out unknown priorities from known priorities.

Previously, I'd get so many bids for time the act of even enumerating the tasks TO prioritize was too much and I'd end up in a push-workflow, rather than pulling tasks by their appropriate priority.

So, hopefully this is some encouragement for you to think about what's urgent/important in your inbox, what's unknown and needs triage, and what can be scheduled for later.